Our Partners

European Space Agency

The ESA Harwell supports entrepreneurs and high tech start-up companies to translate space technologies, applications and services into viable non-space business ideas.

Innovate UK

Innovate UK is the new name for the Technology Strategy Board.
We fund, support and connect innovative businesses to accelerate sustainable economic growth. We’re an organisation of around 250 staff, drawn mainly from business and based in Swindon.

UK Trade & Investment

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) works with UK-based businesses to ensure their success in international markets, and encourage the best overseas companies to look to the UK as their global partner of choice. UKTI has professional advisers both within the UK and across more than 100 international markets.

Union Hand-Roasted Coffee

Union Hand-Roasted Coffee is a small company, owned by Jeremy Torz and Steven Macatonia, that is dedicated to the joy of high quality Arabica coffee. They roast their coffee every day in small batches to display the coffee's fullest expression of flavour and aroma.

The UK pace sector is increasingly recognised for its significant contribution to the UK economy. This follows a decade of sustained growth, underpinned by a broad commitment to excellence and innovation. The UK already commands a seven per cent share of the global space market, and has ambitions to secure an even greater stake as the market swells to a predicted value of £400 billion by 2030.

Catapult

The UK pace sector is increasingly recognised for its significant contribution to the UK economy. This follows a decade of sustained growth, underpinned by a broad commitment to excellence and innovation. The UK already commands a seven per cent share of the global space market, and has ambitions to secure an even greater stake as the market swells to a predicted value of £400 billion by 2030.

In response, the Satellite Applications Catapult has been established as a new type of independent innovation and technology company, created to foster growth across the economy through the exploitation of space. We help organisations make use of and benefit from satellite technologies, and bring together multi-disciplinary teams to generate ideas and solutions in an open innovation environment.

Under the leadership of Chairman, Tim Sherwood, and Chief Executive Officer, Stuart Martin, we aim to be at the forefront of the UK space sector growth plans and investment, and the plans to capture a 10 per cent share of the global market. This will more than quadruple the UK space-related economy to an estimated £40Bn per year, and create around 100,000 new high-tech jobs across the country.

Our facilities, expertise and accessible collaborative environment are essential components in the plan to deliver this space sector growth potential.

European Space Agency

European Space Agency

The ESA Harwell supports entrepreneurs and high tech start-up companies to translate space technologies, applications and services into viable non-space business ideas.

Located at Harwell Oxford, one of the UK's national science and innovation campuses, the ESA BIC Harwell is part of a rich environment which is home to over 4,500 researchers, engineers and innovators from more than 150 different high-tech organisations. The Centre, as part of the ESA Technology Transfer Programme Office's Business Incubation initiative, gives entrepreneurs and start-ups, certain facilities that they require to get their ideas off of the ground.

Innovate UK

Innovate UK

Innovate UK is the new name for the Technology Strategy Board.
We fund, support and connect innovative businesses to accelerate sustainable economic growth. We’re an organisation of around 250 staff, drawn mainly from business and based in Swindon.

UKTI

UK Trade & Investment

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) works with UK-based businesses to ensure their success in international markets, and encourage the best overseas companies to look to the UK as their global partner of choice. UKTI has professional advisers both within the UK and across more than 100 international markets.

Union Hand-Roasted Coffee

Union Hand-Roasted Coffee

Union Hand-Roasted Coffee is a small company, owned by Jeremy Torz and Steven Macatonia, that is dedicated to the joy of high quality Arabica coffee. They roast their coffee every day in small batches to display the coffee's fullest expression of flavour and aroma.

Established in 2001, Union Hand-Roasted was created by Jeremy Torz and Steven Macatonia who entered into the world of coffee from inspiration by the micro-roastery cafes of San Francisco, California and then from their observations of the difficult predicament of farmers in coffee growing communities.